"From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection--spanning nearly three decades, and including never-before-published...

A "poetic" and "captivating" (Publishers Weekly) memoir about the power of place to shape generations, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable memoir of his family's century-long love affair with Montana's majestic Blackfoot River, the setting for his father's classic novella, A River Runs through It. Maclean returns annually to the simple family cabin that his grandfather built by hand, still in search of the trout of a lifetime. When he hooks...

HORROR & GHOST STORIES. 20 tales bursting at the seams with ghosts, graveyards, and things that go bump in the night Nothing goes better with gooey s'mores and a glowing campfire than a good ghost story. This collection of scary classics and frightening folktales will send shivers up anyone's spine. "Campfire Stories" includes original and classic stories of adventure, ghosts, and all the things you worry about when you hear something go bump in the...